Oliver Wyman Health Podcast

In this podcast, Oliver Wyman’s Sam Glick talks about the need for healthcare leaders to be strategic when it comes to adopting innovation.

Healthcare organizations must reinvent healthcare from the inside, says Craig Samitt, MD, CEO of the national physician enterprise division of Surround Care.

Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield is using out-of-the-box thinking to find ways of increasing access to care and reducing health disparities in the largely rural state.

In this podcast, Jack Stoddard, CEO of Patina Health details why primary care must evolve to better meet patient needs and improve the patient experience.

Healthcare needs to redefine what innovation means for care delivery. Implicit in that is an acknowledgement that technology and innovation are not synonymous. Santiago Doria of Oliver Wyman sits down with Ashwini Zenooz of Commure to discuss ways leaders can deploy new technologies to anchor specific goals that put clinicians and patients at the center.

Houston Methodist embarked on an ambitious journey to maximize the use of technology to reimagine its workforce model. That includes a virtual ICU, tele-nurses doing patient intake and discharge, and artificial intelligence helping identify staff training needs. It’s resulting in clinicians being able to spend more time at the bedside. Tom Robinson of Oliver Wyman and Roberta Schwartz, CIO of Houston Methodist discuss the organization's mission to build a sustainable workforce.

Civica Rx is poised to broaden its impact on the drug manufacturing supply chain in 2023 with the opening of its first production plant. Civica’s president and CEO discusses the company’s business model and plans for the future in this podcast.

In this podcast with Oliver Wyman’s Ann Kaplan, Wessler details how specialty care providers can catch up to primary care when it comes to utilizing telehealth.

In this podcast, Kelsey Maguire, Managing Director of Sandbox Industries and the Blue Venture Fund and Akshay Agarway, MD, Partner of Oliver Wyman dissect the macroeconomic and microeconomic trends impacting healthcare and investors.

Jeff Wessler, Founder and CEO of Heartbeat Health joins our podcast to discuss how telehealth isn’t just for primary care anymore. Specialty care providers are breaking into the arena and offering patients new ways to access care.

The record pace of investment in healthcare spurred a lot of innovation, but now it’s time to tackle more complex problems.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, Annie Lamont, talks with Oliver Wyman Health and Life Sciences Partner, Sam Glick, about what matters the most when backing healthcare organizations. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast.

Intermountain Healthcare's President and CEO, Marc Harrison, MD, talks with Oliver Wyman Health and Life Sciences Partner, Tom Robinson, about the importance of taking risks to be a leader in reshaping care delivery. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, matthew.weinstock@oliverwyman.com.

Accodade's Chief Medical Officer, Shantanu Nundy, MD, talks with Oliver Wyman Health and Life Sciences Partner, Tom Robinson, about innovation we can adopt from Covid-19 and apply to the future of personalized care. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, matthew.weinstock@oliverwyman.com.

Although there are 155 million registered donors or nearly half of US adults, transplant waitlists remain long. While the US leads the world in deceased organ donation rates with steady growth and clinical innovations that have helped address the need, there is major room for improvement. Says Alex Glazier, CEO of New England Donor Services, with the right systemwide interventions, deceased donor kidney transplantation could jump by 61% by 2026. Dan Shellenbarger, Partner in Oliver Wyman's Health and Life Sciences Practice, sat down with Alex Glazier, CEO of New England Donor Services, and Kevin O'Connor, CEO of LifeCenter Northwest on the Oliver Wyman Health Podcast to talk about ways in which their organizations are driving improvements in organ recovery and transplantation and why older donors are a key demographic of focus. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, matthew.weinstock@oliverwyman.com.

Healthcare organizations and those who lead them must think carefully about the efficacy of their security programs to assess how attractive they could be to hackers. In this episode, Jason Crabtree, CEO of QOMPLX, joins Paul Mee, Partner, and Head of Oliver Wyman’s Cyber Platform to discuss cybersecurity. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, matthew.weinstock@oliverwyman.com.

Unleashing latent innovation comes down to commonsense. But not just any commonsense. Radical commonsense. So says Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, President & Chief Executive Officer of SCAN Group and Health Plan, who joins the Oliver Wyman Health Podcast to talk about virtual care, health equity, what consumers want, and SCAN’s work to address homelessness as a healthcare problem. In this show, Sachin and host Tom Robinson, a Health and Life Sciences partner at Oliver Wyman, talk about how leaders can align their management styles with those of the people they work with. Sachin advises healthcare leaders to make their organizations unnecessary by improving the health of the communities they serve. The future of healthcare, he says, is already here. But it’s unevenly distributed. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, jacqueline.dichiara@oliverwyman.com.

Addressing racism is a marathon, not a sprint. Healthcare leaders must be willing to take the first step to initiate heavy conversations that drive progress. Says Dr. Nzinga Harrison, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Eleanor Health, there is a direct correlation between someone experiencing weathering (a "fight or flight" physiological reaction) to them possibly developing health problems like high blood pressure, obesity, cardiovascular illness, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and more down the road. To learn more about weathering, health equity, and more, Elizabeth Southerlan, Principal in Oliver Wyman's Health and Life Sciences Practice, sat down with Dr. Harrison to talk about the psychological burden of racism as an independent risk factor for health. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication, Oliver Wyman Health, at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, matthew.weinstock@oliverwyman.com.

In honor of National Kidney Month, Bobby Sepucha, CEO of Cricket Health, and Tom Robinson from Oliver Wyman discuss the current state of Chronic Kidney Disease. Learn how Cricket Health’s strategies for detecting kidney disease earlier are helping keep patients rushing to the emergency room, not realizing what’s wrong with them. See some memorable stats from this episode: https://health.oliverwyman.com/2021/03/90--of-chronic-kidney-disease-patients-don-t-know-they-have-it-.html For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, jacqueline.dichiara@oliverwyman.com.

"Physician burnout is one of the largest, most significant public health crises that we don't talk enough about," says our guest, Punit Singh Soni, Founder and CEO of Suki, a startup that uses AI-powered, voice-enabled digital physician assistants to shorten the time physicians spend documenting. In this episode, Tom Robinson, a Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Health and Life Sciences practice, chats with Punit about the future of AI and medical scribes. They talk about how Suki aims to ultimately strengthen greater physician-patient rapport. They also discuss how to better automatically translate clinical documents into accurately summarized conversations, the shortfalls many medical scribing companies face in terms of how their business models are set up, and why healthcare is truly ripe for disruption in the AI space. For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, jacqueline.dichiara@oliverwyman.com.